Ooh, let's hope the press don't get the wrong idea, I am sure CNN and TIME will be carefully watching as this story develops, this is such an important and earth-shattering idea! You'll go down in history with Gandhi.
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You obviously don't reall remember Jon Katz' stuff that well. Neither do I, thank god.
While I think all this was true up to about a year ago, I think they actually sort of closed the loophole and it is less grey and more clearly illegal now. I wish I had backup for this, but I don't, I just remember reading an article about it in the paper about a year ago or so.
If you think that a book is inherently better just because it incorporates the local mythos, legends, etc., please don't let me ever take any book recommendations from you. That's like saying that the latest crap updated remake of a Shakespeare play turned into a movie is inherently better than the original work.
This article is just weak. First off, it makes the argument that the ripoff works are okay because, while they may tarnish the characters, to block them would be some sort of crime against a free market. Then right at the end, the author suddenly decided to talk about parody, but actually admits that the copycat works are not works of parody. The 2 Live Crew analogy is particularily terrible, it's the writer's way of framing the issue beside a case that everyone agrees on, but it really has nothing to do with the books in question.
If this was about the publishers attacking small fan-fiction sites, that'd be one thing, but this is a case of people making millions and millions of dollars by copying (no, not always word for word, but stealing characters, etc. is still stealing), in a pure act of commerce. You can hate JK Rowling for being rich and blocking these books, but you at least have to credit her for caring about the books, the people the article is defending are pure commercial opportunists.
Just a note, this is only crafty if you pick someone who doesn't notice this and report it. I have worked at places where someone did this, a customer saw it, and then phoned the manager later to tell them. I've noticed people doing it myself but not bothered phoning cause it was a small item, but when I think back I probably should have.
Okay, so uhh.. if Apple isn't a viable competitor to Windows right now, then what is? And if linux surpasses it in installed base terms, does that make Apple any less viable? The word viable here is really problematic basically.
But I will say this: The number of people likely to get rid of OS X in favor of Linux are about the same amount of people that ever ran Tru64 on the desktop.
Haha, unfortunately for ESR, "more down-to-earth and approachable than RMS" is about as good a compliment as "less smelly than sewage" or "less evil than hitler".
You really think that's more interesting that adding a ton of available music? I don't find that interesting at all, that's about as interesting as the partnership between Toys 'R Us and amazon.
3.8 inches is obviously not great, but it's actually not terrible, I've got a 3.5 on a professional movie camera and it's actually not that annoying. You wouldn't replace your tv with it obviously, but for times you're travelling without a laptop or whatever, 3.5 or 3.8 is pretty fine.
It's true, never underestimate the stupidity of anyone, whether they read slashdot or not, as the dozens of drooling non-critical comments in this story suggests. People will believe what they want to believe, and this time it happens to be a lonely, super-hot 18-yr old girl who is really into P2P issues. I don't think I could make someone up that would better appeal to the average stereotypical geek circa 2003, so bravo to Johnny Deep for at least knowing what people want (his daughter in a bikini).
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Dude, the average slashdotter, 18 or not, has an impressive set of boobs. Your sentence should have read "Why should it be any different just because somebody's got a set of boobs (and is a girl)?"
But it also may mean he doesn't own it still, that's a grey area isn't it?
But either way, I would bet money he doesn't have the authority to put things up for release, I can't see AOL's lawyers buying nullsoft and leaving in language like that, that's pretty irregular, and aol is so big. Maybe only if Justin was super vehement about that and they wanted winamp so bad, but I bet he never even thought of that.
Exactly, and personally I think you're assuming too much when you say the subsidiary had a choice, we have no clue on what the agreement is, but I would be surprised if AOL didn't just own all the rights outright to anything nullsoft makes, including the right to decide the license, etc.
They definitely do grab all the best stuff for themselves when there's a shortage, I actually bought the imac I'm writing on now from an apple store 3 hours away from me a few weeks after it came out because it was the only place that had any in a 3 hour radius. All the local stores were saying they wouldn't have any for weeks and there were articles on cnet, etc. about the shortages because some retailers accused Apple of only shipping them to the Apple stores. So, I phoned the nearest Apple store, and sure enough they had tons of them, so I drove there the next day and picked one up. I dislike Apple for doing it, but what can I say, I am impatient ha!
Your "noone forced him" argument would make more sense if he was threatening to sue or something. Instead, he's just pointing something out: Apple is killing the independent retail outlets by hogging the computers themselves when there is a shortage, which there often is with new apple products. It's not in case retailers balk at pricing or anything like that, it's to make more money by selling it at their own stores. Legitimate business practice? Maybe. Lame considering they are screwing the retailers who believed in them for years and without whom they would have gone out of business years ago? Yes.
Don't get me wrong, I've shopped at the Apple Store, they're nice. You just have to ask, why are Apple competing with their own dealers like that, by grabbing all the hot product right away, it has nothing to do with independent apple stores wanting to put product on sale or anything.
It is pretty bad though, my friend got some gator-produced program that did something with your clock somehow on my laptop and the keyboard stopped working, just died. I couldn't figure for weeks it out till I ran ad-aware and it uninstalled the gator clock thing, and boom, the keyboard worked again.
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Ooh, let's hope the press don't get the wrong idea, I am sure CNN and TIME will be carefully watching as this story develops, this is such an important and earth-shattering idea! You'll go down in history with Gandhi.
You obviously don't reall remember Jon Katz' stuff that well. Neither do I, thank god.
While I think all this was true up to about a year ago, I think they actually sort of closed the loophole and it is less grey and more clearly illegal now. I wish I had backup for this, but I don't, I just remember reading an article about it in the paper about a year ago or so.
But they aren't parodies at all, as the article clearly states, even though it's antithetical to it's own arguments.
If you think that a book is inherently better just because it incorporates the local mythos, legends, etc., please don't let me ever take any book recommendations from you. That's like saying that the latest crap updated remake of a Shakespeare play turned into a movie is inherently better than the original work.
Totally, this article is full of terrible, weak analogies like that, contrary to whatever Michael wrote in his little summation of the story.
This article is just weak. First off, it makes the argument that the ripoff works are okay because, while they may tarnish the characters, to block them would be some sort of crime against a free market. Then right at the end, the author suddenly decided to talk about parody, but actually admits that the copycat works are not works of parody. The 2 Live Crew analogy is particularily terrible, it's the writer's way of framing the issue beside a case that everyone agrees on, but it really has nothing to do with the books in question.
If this was about the publishers attacking small fan-fiction sites, that'd be one thing, but this is a case of people making millions and millions of dollars by copying (no, not always word for word, but stealing characters, etc. is still stealing), in a pure act of commerce. You can hate JK Rowling for being rich and blocking these books, but you at least have to credit her for caring about the books, the people the article is defending are pure commercial opportunists.
Just a note, this is only crafty if you pick someone who doesn't notice this and report it. I have worked at places where someone did this, a customer saw it, and then phoned the manager later to tell them. I've noticed people doing it myself but not bothered phoning cause it was a small item, but when I think back I probably should have.
Okay, so uhh.. if Apple isn't a viable competitor to Windows right now, then what is? And if linux surpasses it in installed base terms, does that make Apple any less viable? The word viable here is really problematic basically.
But I will say this: The number of people likely to get rid of OS X in favor of Linux are about the same amount of people that ever ran Tru64 on the desktop.
No way, compare:
"what can this thing do my typewriter can't?"
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"what can this thing do my bike can't?"
Maybe you aren't taken seriously because of your spelling. Seriously.
Here's a tip, try a little website I found, it's called amazon.com, it's one of those "obscure indie sites" you were talking about.
Haha, unfortunately for ESR, "more down-to-earth and approachable than RMS" is about as good a compliment as "less smelly than sewage" or "less evil than hitler".
I think they mean it passed through the hotmail server on the way to this guy's hotmail account?
You really think that's more interesting that adding a ton of available music? I don't find that interesting at all, that's about as interesting as the partnership between Toys 'R Us and amazon.
You feel like a god among brainless toys, and yet your sig is "Coed naked netting: pushing all the right buttons". Interesting.
3.8 inches is obviously not great, but it's actually not terrible, I've got a 3.5 on a professional movie camera and it's actually not that annoying. You wouldn't replace your tv with it obviously, but for times you're travelling without a laptop or whatever, 3.5 or 3.8 is pretty fine.
It's true, never underestimate the stupidity of anyone, whether they read slashdot or not, as the dozens of drooling non-critical comments in this story suggests. People will believe what they want to believe, and this time it happens to be a lonely, super-hot 18-yr old girl who is really into P2P issues. I don't think I could make someone up that would better appeal to the average stereotypical geek circa 2003, so bravo to Johnny Deep for at least knowing what people want (his daughter in a bikini).
Dude, the average slashdotter, 18 or not, has an impressive set of boobs. Your sentence should have read "Why should it be any different just because somebody's got a set of boobs (and is a girl)?"
But it also may mean he doesn't own it still, that's a grey area isn't it?
But either way, I would bet money he doesn't have the authority to put things up for release, I can't see AOL's lawyers buying nullsoft and leaving in language like that, that's pretty irregular, and aol is so big. Maybe only if Justin was super vehement about that and they wanted winamp so bad, but I bet he never even thought of that.
Exactly, and personally I think you're assuming too much when you say the subsidiary had a choice, we have no clue on what the agreement is, but I would be surprised if AOL didn't just own all the rights outright to anything nullsoft makes, including the right to decide the license, etc.
Right, the example given isn't irony at all. A better example would be a thousand spoons when all you want is a fork.
They definitely do grab all the best stuff for themselves when there's a shortage, I actually bought the imac I'm writing on now from an apple store 3 hours away from me a few weeks after it came out because it was the only place that had any in a 3 hour radius. All the local stores were saying they wouldn't have any for weeks and there were articles on cnet, etc. about the shortages because some retailers accused Apple of only shipping them to the Apple stores. So, I phoned the nearest Apple store, and sure enough they had tons of them, so I drove there the next day and picked one up. I dislike Apple for doing it, but what can I say, I am impatient ha!
Your "noone forced him" argument would make more sense if he was threatening to sue or something. Instead, he's just pointing something out: Apple is killing the independent retail outlets by hogging the computers themselves when there is a shortage, which there often is with new apple products. It's not in case retailers balk at pricing or anything like that, it's to make more money by selling it at their own stores. Legitimate business practice? Maybe. Lame considering they are screwing the retailers who believed in them for years and without whom they would have gone out of business years ago? Yes.
Don't get me wrong, I've shopped at the Apple Store, they're nice. You just have to ask, why are Apple competing with their own dealers like that, by grabbing all the hot product right away, it has nothing to do with independent apple stores wanting to put product on sale or anything.
It is pretty bad though, my friend got some gator-produced program that did something with your clock somehow on my laptop and the keyboard stopped working, just died. I couldn't figure for weeks it out till I ran ad-aware and it uninstalled the gator clock thing, and boom, the keyboard worked again.